[RFC] [PATCH 7/7] Ftrace plugin for Uprobes

Frank Ch. Eigler fche at redhat.com
Tue Jan 12 18:54:01 UTC 2010


Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec at gmail.com> writes:

> [...]
> This is much more tricky in the case of uprobes as I see two
> ways to work with it:
> - probing on an already running process
> - probing on a process we are about to run
> [...]

As you might expect, in systemtap we've had to figure out this area
some time ago.  We use another utrace consumer called "task finder"
that registers interest in present / future processes, and gives us
kernel-space callbacks when these come and go.  You could merge it or
something like it.

- FChE




More information about the utrace-devel mailing list